Browse content similar to 31/01/2014. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
conviction. Appearing on television at home in America, she says she'll | :00:15. | :00:25. | |
never willingly return to Italy. I am going to fight this until the | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
very end. And it is not right, and it is not fair. | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
But Meredith Kercher's family say Knox should be extradited. I think | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
we are still on the journey to the truth, and it may be the fact that | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
we don't ever really know what happened that night. | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
We'll look at how likely it is that Amanda Knox will be extradited from | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
the US. Also tonight: Sandbags at the ready. | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
Britain braces itself for more bad weather as the wind and rain returns | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
for the weekend. The hidden horror of abuse in | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
private schools. Hundreds of former pupils could sue for damages. We | :01:05. | :01:13. | |
have a special report. That is it. And after Ashes humiliation, England | :01:14. | :01:14. | |
part company with Andy Flower. Bob and Boris still poles apart, as | :01:15. | :01:24. | |
next week's two-day Tube strike looms. | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
Life in prison for the gang who killed a 16-year-old in Pimlico. | :01:28. | :01:50. | |
Good Evening. Welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
The family of the murdered British student Meredith Kercher say they | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
may never know what really happened to her when she died in Italy in | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
2007. They were speaking after Italian judges reinstated the guilty | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
verdicts against Amanda Knox and Rafaele Sollecito. Meredith | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
Kercher's sister said said they were still on what they called "a journey | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
for the truth" about what really went on in Perugia. Today Amanda | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
Knox said she was going to fight until the very end any attempt to | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
extradite her from the United States. Raffaele Sollecito, Amanda | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
Knox's former boyfriend, was today banned from leaving Italy after | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
being arrested by police close to the border. This report from Luisa | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
Baldini contains some flash photography. | :02:35. | :02:46. | |
Amanda, how do you feel about the guilty verdict. Refusing to show her | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
face, let alone answer questions, Amanda Knox left her mother's house | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
in Seattle following convictions -- the convictions, but was later at TV | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
studios in New York where she gave an emotional but defiant interview. | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
I will never go willingly back to the place where... I am going to | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
fight this until the very end. And it is not right, and it is not fair. | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
And I'm going to do everything I can. Granted, I need a lot of help. | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
I can't do this on my own, and I can't help people understand this on | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
my own. But it is in Italy that she stands accused of murdering Meredith | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
Kercher, and in spite of claims that they did not get on, Amanda has | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
always said they were friends. It was shortly before the murder that | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
Amanda and Raffaele Sollecito started dating. Although he has been | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
at some court hearings, it was not there for the verdicts, and these | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
latest pictures show him leaving a police station in northern Italy | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
near the border with Austria today. Police say they detained him and | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
confiscated his passport. It is reported he may have been trying to | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
flee. For Meredith's family, the verdicts are just another stage in a | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
long process. We are still on the journey to the truth. And it may be | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
the fact that we don't ever really know what happened that night, which | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
is obviously something we will have to come to terms with. The verdicts | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
reinstate the original convictions, based on the first trial in 2009. So | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
what was the main evidence against Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito? | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
The prosecution said that both the DNA of Amanda and Meredith was on | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
the knife a believed to be the murder weapon and that Sollecito's | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
DNA was on Meredith's bra clasps, although that evidence was | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
contested. Her behaviour was also questioned, when Amanda and Raffaele | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
Sollecito were seen kissing hours after the body was found, which was | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
deemed suspicious. The prosecution always claimed that Amanda Knox, | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
Raffaele Sollecito and a third man, Rudy Guede, still in prison for the | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
crime, had been involved in a sex game that went wrong, but after | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
appeal she was acquitted in 2011, and Amanda was immediately freed and | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
allowed to return home to the United States. She will have no choice on | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
this, because this legal process of the Italian, assuming the Italian | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
Supreme Court confirms it, Amanda Knox will be facing an extradition | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
process, an extradition hearing, I have no doubt. First, Amanda Knox, | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
Raffaele Sollecito and the Kercher family will wait for the report to | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
be published in 90 days giving the reasons for the convictions. Only | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
then can they appeal. The next phase of the lengthy legal process to find | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
definitive justice for Meredith Kercher. | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
So as we've been hearing, Amanda Knox says she'll fight all attempts | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
to send her back to Italy. Let's talk to our North America | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
correspondent Nick Bryant. What likelihood is there that she will | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
one day be extradited to face the courts once again in Italy? There | :06:08. | :06:17. | |
are many Americans who regard Amanda Knox as the victim of a miscarriage | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
of justice from a legal system they think is shambolic and medieval. The | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
Court of opinion in America is firmly on her side. If America | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
agreed to an extradition request, a legal process with layout. She would | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
have her day in court and could contest her extradition. But if a | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
judge said she had to go back to Italy, the decision would come back | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
here to the state department, and legal considerations would be in | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
play, but also political and diplomatic considerations. | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
Politically, she has some powerful backers on Capitol Hill, public | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
opinion is on her side. Diplomatically, does America want to | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
anger arose and also jeopardise extradition requests for its own | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
fugitives on American soil that it wants to bring back to America? It | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
is a compensated process which could take years. I have just been | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
speaking to a lawyer who said it is a real 50-50. | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
The Met Office is warning of yet more flooding this weekend, as a | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
band of heavy rain sweeps across the UK. Nine severe flood warnings are | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
in place tonight with fears that coastal flood defences and sea walls | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
could be breached. In Aberystwyth, hundreds of university students have | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
been told to leave their sea-front accommodation because of fears for | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
their safety. And in Somerset intense preparations are underway to | :07:38. | :07:39. | |
protect already flooded stretches of the Somerset Levels. Jon Kay has | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
spent the day there and has sent this report from the village of | :07:44. | :07:52. | |
Burrowbridge. If you thought the weather forecast | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
was depressing, spare a thought for James. Here we go again, just what | :07:56. | :08:05. | |
we don't need. 90% of his farm is already underwater. This is all the | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
farmland which should be nice green grass. With heavy rain falling | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
again, James fears that things are about to get even worse. Stomach | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
churning. You just ring, last time we had 30 millimetres of rain on the | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
hills, it rose eight .5 inches within 12 hours. You can see how | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
close it is to the buildings and the house. It is a high spring tide as | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
well, so we have that battle. It is set to be a very wet weekend, and on | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
the Somerset Levels it is already spilling over the roads. Over the | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
last couple of days the level of the water has been slowly dropping, but | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
this afternoon we have more heavy rain, the wind is blowing hard, and | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
look, warnings in place yet again. | :08:53. | :09:35. | |
Aberystwyth was hammered at New Year, and now it is set for another | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
pasting. These students have been told to leave their halls of | :09:40. | :09:41. | |
residence for the third time since Christmas. It is lasting too long | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
now. It would be nice to stop having evacuations. Hopefully it will pass | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
and we don't have another crazy winter. In Cornwall, part of the | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
South West coastal path has been closed after a landslip. It looks | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
like a mass movement in the cliff face with active erosion which has | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
led to cracking. There is very little that can be done apart from | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
divert in the path. In Sussex, it was railway lines blocked by | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
landslips, leaving commuters delayed for the start of the weekend. So | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
tonight, Britain is braced all over again for heavy rain, high tides and | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
huge gusts. It seems February is about to arrive with the same the | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
Russell T as the New Year did. -- the same ferocity. 140 miles from | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
soaking Somerset, at this moment the Environment Secretary is sitting | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
down in Westminster to chair another meeting of the government's | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
emergency COBRA committee. To give you an idea of how relentless this | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
weather has been, it will be the 16th time that committee has met to | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
discuss the climate and the weather we have suffered since all of this | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
began just before Christmas. And it is not just wind and tides and rain, | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
some people are getting snow as well this weekend. Ministers are | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
stressing that at least as far as Somerset is concerned, they are | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
grabbing things by the scruff of the neck. | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
A British husband accused of hiring a hit man to kill his wife while | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
they were on honeymoon in Cape Town has lost his High Court attempt to | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
block his extradition to South Africa. Shrien Dewani claimed he was | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
unfit to stand trial because of his mental health problems. His wife, | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
Anni, was shot while in the back of a taxi in November 2010. Mr Dewani | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
can still appeal against today's judgement but his wife's family say | :11:39. | :11:47. | |
they will fight on. It has been three-year 's and three months so | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
far. It has been a long time. We have had to fight in so many | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
different courts but we are happy we can go forward now. | :11:56. | :11:57. | |
The owners of the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site in Cumbria say | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
higher than normal levels of radiation detected at the complex | :12:01. | :12:02. | |
this morning were caused by naturally occurring radon. | :12:03. | :12:04. | |
Nonessential staff had been told not to come into work after the | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
abnormalities were detected. The company says staff can now return to | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
work as normal and that there is no risk to the public. | :12:12. | :12:22. | |
Dozens of leading public schools are facing a sharp rise in claims for | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
historical sex abuse allegations dating back decades. One legal firm | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
says the schools should pay American-style financial damages | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
running into hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of pounds, to | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
compensate victims whose lives have been ruined by abuse. Such claims | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
could threaten the future of some of the smaller independent schools. | :12:43. | :12:50. | |
Britain's great public schools. For many young boys, institutions that | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
have been the making of them. But for some, the breaking of them. We | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
now know that hundreds of children suffered often lifelong damage from | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
sexual abuse by staff at some of the country's most prestigious private | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
schools. Now, a British- American law firm is seeking US style | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
compensation pay-outs from UK courts, demanding damages in some | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
cases of over ?1 million. The message, I think, to people who do | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
bad things is, go to Great Britain because you can frolic and do | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
whatever you want with our children, and at the end, if you are caught | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
and you have to pay, you will pay a very small price. In America if you | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
do this and get caught, it is going to hurt. If people don't pay real | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
money to stop this problem, it is not going to end. As a teenager at | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
St Bede 's College, Catholic hoarding school in Manchester in the | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
late 1950s and early 1960s, Rick Merrin was repeatedly and severely | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
abused by the headmaster, Monsignor Thomas Duggan, and two other | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
priests. I woke up and I was faced down. I don't need to explain what | :13:59. | :14:15. | |
they did to me. From top of the class to a life of disappointment in | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
work and relationships. A psychiatric report concludes that | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
his abusers stole the golden future he should have had. He is among | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
hundreds of public schoolboys who have gone to lawyers seeking damages | :14:29. | :14:30. | |
for abuse often committed decades ago. In 2011 And Other St Bede 's | :14:31. | :14:40. | |
teacher, Father William Green, admitted 27 sexual assaults on boys | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
in the 1970s, with the possibility of personally facing damages | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
claims. Seven governors at St Bede 's resigned. It has not been seen in | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
child abuse cases before but legal experts say that the courts could | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
order substantial compensation. There might be a considerable | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
financial settlement at the end of this. What motivates you to do it. | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
Is it the money? Nothing could make up for what happened to me at school | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
and the impact it has had on my life. If it comes to some form of | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
financial settlement, it would be some small way of making up for it. | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
Only last November, inspectors rated St Bede 's child protection policies | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
on satisfactory, and the college, now a coeducational Catholic Day | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
School, has promised to review safeguarding policies, insisting St | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
Bede 's is a safe and secure environment. Public revulsion at the | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
perpetrators and sympathy towards victims has led many more people to | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
find the confidence to tell their stories. Now, with lawyers | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
considering punitive damages for historical abuse, the very survival | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
of some of written's oldest and most established institutions could be | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
under threat. I can tell you that in the 1970s and 1980s particularly, | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
the words child protection were never really used. The culture has | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
completely changed, and I think it is very unfair on the teachers and | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
parents of children in those schools, and the children | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
themselves, if a school was to be forced to close as a result of | :16:19. | :16:20. | |
something which happened decades ago. The prospect of American-style | :16:21. | :16:28. | |
court pay-outs toppling ancient educational institutions will | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
outrage some, but others will protest that only by demanding | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
significant compensation can society properly value the life of a child. | :16:38. | :16:45. | |
It is 16 minutes past six. Our main story: Meredith Kercher's family say | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
they are still on a journey to the truth after murder convictions are | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
reinstated against Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito. Coming up: The | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
actress Sienna Miller gives evidence to the phone hacking trial about a | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
voice mail she left for the James Bond actor Daniel Craig. | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
Later on BBC London: "A lack of dignity in his dying days" - a | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
daughter demands to know why her father was so poorly cared for in | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
hospital. And we meet the capital's rugby | :17:17. | :17:18. | |
captains hoping to lead their countries to glory in the Six | :17:19. | :17:20. | |
Nations. They are two leaders from different | :17:21. | :17:36. | |
backgrounds, but when David Cameron hosted the French president for a | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
summit today, the emphasis was supposed to have been on | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
cooperation. There was some agreement with announcements on | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
defence, energy and space. But divisions were quickly exposed over | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
the future of Europe. David Cameron wants reform with every negotiator | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
EU treaty by 2017. Francois Hollande is less keen, describing it as not a | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
priority. This afternoon, Bill to legally under pin David Cameron's | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
pledged to give voters a referendum was killed off in the House of | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
Lords. With more, this report from our deputy political editor, James | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
Landale. It contains some flash photography. The French president | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
arrived alone at a windy airbase near Oxford. It is a businesslike | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
venue for a businesslike summit, very much without spouses. Their job | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
today was to repair a relationship worn thin by diplomatic spats. | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
Differences over policy, the prime and it openly at knowledge. We are | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
not going to agree about everything. I'm a British Conservative and he is | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
a socialist. They agreed where they could, above all on defence, with | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
plans form or joint exercises and anti-ship missiles. But over lunch | :18:54. | :19:05. | |
at the pub that once appeared in Downton Abbey, they discussed their | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
fundamental disagreements over Europe. Mr Cameron wants Britain's | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
relationship with the EU to change. We want to see those changes. We | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
want to see that renegotiation, and that will involve elements of treaty | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
change. Then there will be a referendum in Britain before the end | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
of 2017 that is an in out referendum. Back in London, a bill | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
designed to enshrine the referendum in law was being killed off by | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
peers. But here, even the premise of a referendum was worrying the French | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
president, who fears treaty change could force into hold a referendum, | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
too. TRANSLATION: If there are going to be a member to the text, we don't | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
feel that for the time being they are urgent. We feel that revising | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
the treaty is not a priority for the time being. We can't just expect to | :19:56. | :20:03. | |
follow the example of one country in Europe in order to determine the | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
rest. David Cameron's problem is that if he is going to achieve | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
reform in Europe, he needs allies. The Nao, France into -- isn't one. | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
Do you think your private life has made France an international joke? | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
Are you still having an affair? I'm afraid I decline to answer. So, | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
sharp question asked and a few deals signed, and a long conversation | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
between two men with reviews about the future of Europe. -- different | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
views. The actress Sienna Miller has told | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
the phone hacking trial she did leave a message saying 'I love you' | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
on the voice mail of the James Bond star Daniel Craig, but insisted its | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
meaning had been misunderstood. Ms Miller told the court she had had | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
what she described as a brief encounter with the actor. A former | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
News of the World journalist claims the paper published a story based on | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
the voice mail. Our home affairs correspondent, Tom Symonds, reports. | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
This report contains some flash photography. Sienna Miller and | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
Daniel Craig, on-screen lovers in their film, layer cake. But | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
off-screen, their relationship has been pored over in this trial. It | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
she called him from the Groucho club in Soho, London, and leave the | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
mobile phone voice mail message? It is important because the keeper | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
seclusion witness, former reporter Dan Evans, said she did. But he | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
illegally intercepted it and played it to Andy Coulson, then the editor | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
of the News of the World, proving he knew all about phone hacking. Mr | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
Coulson's barrister says it didn't happen. Over a video link from New | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
Orleans, Sienna Miller was asked, did she remember leaving the | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
message? She said, it is likely, not impossible. She admitted she had had | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
a very brief encounter with Daniel Craig. But she said she was | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
constantly in contact with him because, he was my best friend, and | :22:06. | :22:14. | |
me saying I view was nothing new. -- I love you. Jude Law was her partner | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
at the time, in 2005. Dan Evans has given evidence that intercepting the | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
voice mail resulted in a big story for him and the paper, one that Andy | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
Coulson absolutely knew the source of. In an intense week in court, Mr | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
Coulson's lawyers have been questioning that story, suggesting | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
the voice mail did not exist and could not have been the basis for | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
the story. That other sources must have helped the newspaper. But | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
Sienna Miller said it could easily have inspired such a story. Somebody | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
intercepted the voice mail and would have thought it was a pretty | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
exciting message to hear. At least, she said, somebody do -- who didn't | :22:54. | :23:01. | |
understand her nature. Sienna Miller's private life has long been | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
scrutinised, including during the Leveson Inquiry. It has happened | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
again in this case. The judge apologised to her and said it was | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
necessary. Andy Coulson denies conspiring to intercept voice mail | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
messages. Tom Symons, BBC News, the Old Bailey. | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
The Conservative MP for Thirsk and Malton, Anne McIntosh, has been | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
deselected by her local party and won't stand as their candidate at | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
the general election next year. Miss McIntosh, who was elected with a | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
majority of more than 11,000 in 2010, says she'll stand as an | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
independent in the seat. She's been involved in a long-running dispute | :23:37. | :23:38. | |
with her local party's executive committee. | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
The Prince of Wales has strongly criticised climate change deniers. | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
Prince Charles, who has campaigned for many years to reduce global | :23:48. | :23:49. | |
warming, said at an awards ceremony last night that the disbelievers | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
were 'the headless chickens brigade', and that powerful | :23:53. | :23:54. | |
anti-climate change groups were putting up a barrage of sheer | :23:55. | :24:03. | |
intimidation. The England cricket coach Andy | :24:04. | :24:05. | |
Flower has stepped down following this winter's woeful performances by | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
his team as they lost the Ashes series in Australia. The | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
announcement came on the day England lost to the Aussies yet again in a | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
Twenty20 match, as our sports editor, David Bond, reports. | :24:17. | :24:26. | |
Just four needed... Another day, another thrashing for England down | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
under, this time in Twenty20 International in Northern. This has | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
been one of the worst Ashes tour is on record, and today Andy Flower | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
paid the inevitable price. Appointed in 2009, he and his quiet authority | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
was initially credited with transforming English cricket. But as | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
results dipped, he was accused of fostering an arrogant majoris | :24:53. | :24:53. | |
culture. In a statement, he said: They almost seem to get soap scared | :24:54. | :25:19. | |
of Andy Flower. -- so scared. That is a concern. He has done an amazing | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
job for a few years. I thought the players looked a bit robotic. So how | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
will his era in charge be remembered? He was the coach who | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
delivered England's first global one-day trophy back in 2010. He led | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
a team to three back-to-back Ashes wins, historic achievement. But this | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
year's five - zero thrashing by Australia has scarred his time at | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
the helm. Despite the disaster down under, Andy Flower said he wanted to | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
carry on as head coach will stop but, following a meeting here at | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
Lords yesterday, it became clear that his position was untenable. Now | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
I knew man must attempt to rebuild England's team. -- new man. Doubts | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
remain over Alastair Cook's future as captain of the Test and one-day | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
teams, and the perennial problem of managing star batsmen Kevin | :26:17. | :26:18. | |
Pietersen will be the first task for whoever becomes the new head coach. | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
Andy Flower turned England into the Test team in the world, but their | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
decline was almost as rapid as they arise. More big changes might be | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
needed before English cricket truly recovers. An all-important look at | :26:35. | :26:42. | |
the weather now. It is going to be a wet one. Yes, | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
more bad news, really, Kate. A three pronged attack continues. The rain | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
has eased in Somerset. That is the good news. Heavy rain across the | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
rest of the UK. Lots of puddles on the news. Some snow across Scotland, | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
risk of it in Northern Ireland. The rain is clearing away to the east. | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
As we go through the nightmare they will be another band into Wales. -- | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
through the night, there will be another band into Wales. It could | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
all freeze up as the possibility of things turns icy. The biggest | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
concern for tomorrow is the risk of further flooding. That is thanks to | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
some strong winds around the coast. There are already severe flood | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
warnings in force. There is the flood line number. The Environment | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
Agency are particularly concerned and say there's a risk to life. | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
Please do not go out looking at the waves around the coast of Wales in | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
south-west England. High tides tomorrow, combined with strong | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
winds, mean a real risk of very big waves and that coastal flooding. 70 | :27:47. | :27:54. | |
mph is possible on exposed coasts. It is a blustery and showery day | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
wherever you are. The showers are wintry early on. Not too many | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
getting to the east, it is a bit dry hair. Elsewhere, expect the showers | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
and expected to feel cold in the wind. Sunday is a breezy day, still | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
with some showers, but overall something of a respite. There will | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
be as many showers but the wins will be lighter and there will be more in | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
the way of sunshine stop still a risk of some high tides. Lots of | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
weather warnings and a huge number of flood warnings. They are all | :28:28. | :28:30. | |
available on the BBC Weather website. We return now to reminder | :28:31. | :28:37. | |
of the main story. The family of Meredith Kercher say they want | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
Amanda Knox extradited to Italy after her guilty verdict was | :28:43. | :28:44. | |
reinstated by the court. That's all from the BBC News at Six, | :28:45. | :28:48. | |
so it's goodbye from me, and on BBC One | :28:49. | :28:50. |